Ruling Says Connolly Was Improperly Convicted Because Statute of Limitations Was Ignored

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday tossed out the murder conviction of a former federal agent accused of participating in the killing of a Florida businessman who had run afoul of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

John Connolly, who was Mr. Bulger's handler at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was charged in 2005 with joining a plot to murder businessman John Callahan in 1982. Mr. Connolly, who wasn't...